Discrimination

  • Mystic massacre

    Mystic massacre

    Colonizers burned down a native settlement and killed all that tried to flee a total of 400-700 died
  • Scalp act

    Scalp act

    Gives citizens money for scalping Native Americans.
    Scalping is when you remove the skin of the head of someone.
  • 3/5ths compromise

    3/5ths compromise

    a compromise suggesting that one slave is 3/5ths of a human but still not allowed to vote. Allowing for slave states to have more representation.
  • End of the slave trade

    End of the slave trade

    The end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Despite the end of the trade slavery was still legal.
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle on Indiana soil. Killed tons of natives. Started before Tecumseh came back. Killed the idea of natives joining together to fight.
  • The Missouri compromise

    The Missouri compromise

    compromise stating that Missouri was a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears

    Forced displacement of natives usually resulting in their death.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    During Andrew Jackson’s presidency. An act allowing for Americans to take land from natives to push them west to the Mississippi.
  • Nat Turner’s rebellion

    Nat Turner’s rebellion

    a massive slave revolt lasting for 2 days. Killing 55-65 white people.
  • The fugitive slave act

    The fugitive slave act

    Act that made free states turn in escaped slaves to their owners.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford

    supreme court ruling stating that African American people are not citizens no matter their background
  • Emancipation proclamation

    Emancipation proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln declared that all slaves are freed.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    Amendment to the constitution banning slavery and involuntary servitude(slavery with extra steps). Except when issued by the government as a punishment for a crime.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    Allows for citizenship to be universal among the states.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    allows for everyone regardless of previous slave status, race, or color to vote.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    Fight started by George Custer intended to kill off the Little Bighorn reservation. Cluster’s plan failed and it was a great victory for the Sioux.
  • Wounded knee massacre

    Wounded knee massacre

    During the time of the ghost dance. A settlement was suspected of partaking in the ghost dance so soldiers brutally harassed natives until a shot was fired. Then the us soldiers killed and slaughtered the settlement.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    supreme court ruling stating that segregation is a constitutional thing to enforce as long as the buildings given to each side was of the same quality.